Current Efforts at Conservation (as well as architecture that once existed)

Attempts made to preserve facades of architecture.

• TANGS' Chinese-styled roof, honouring founder CK Tang, and the Chinese habit of market bargaining.

Now

Then

• Emerald Hill, where the rich Chinese built mansions

Conserved - Emerald Hill

• Peranakan Place, honouring rich culture and relations between Malays and Chinese



Peranakan Place (next to Centrepoint) - Street view



Designs for ION Orchard and The Orchard Residences project drew inspiration from its antecedents as an orchard; the retail canopy draws on the metaphors of 'skin', 'canopies of trees', 'foliage' and 'fruit and peels'; the residential tower design based on the idea of 'roots and shoots', celebrating the side's past and future.

Two menacing Chinese warriors ceramic sculptures from Tang dynasty in front of Hilton Hotel, commissioned to serve as symbolic, historic protectors.